Copying Authorizations From Templates 

Use

You can copy general authorizations into a role in the form of templates. So you can assign general authorizations to users.

You can also create your own templates in the transaction SU24.

Prerequisites

In order to edit models in Transaction SU24 you need the User Master Maintenance and User Group (S_USER_GRP) authorizations, with value * in the CLASS and ACTVT fields.

Procedure

You can assign general authorizations to users in one of two ways:

  1. Create a role which only contains general authorizations (such as printing). Then assign this role to all users. This is the best thing to do if all users are to be allowed to print from any printer, for example.
  2. Use a template to import the required objects into the role and then maintain missing field contents. This is the best thing to do if each user assigned to a role may use only one particular printer, for example.

In the authorization data maintenance, choose Edit ® Insert authorizations ® From template. Choose the SAP_PRINT template. Authorization data is now included in the authorization profile, but you still need to fill in missing details such as which printers are to be used.

If you want to create your own templates, choose Edit templates in Transaction SU24. You can then either create your own templates or make copies of SAP templates and change these. Unlike changes to defaults, changes to templates are not passed on when you compare roles.

The names of SAP templates begin with S . If you create any templates yourself, they should not begin with S .